Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland

An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction: The Splendor of the Saints
DARIO BULLITTA
Rannsökun heilagra böka: The Search for Holy Books
2 Medieval Icelandic Hagiography: The State of the Art
KIRSTEN WOLF
3 An Old Norse Adaptation of an All Saints Sermon by Maurice de Sully
STEPHEN PELLE
4 The Tuscan Provenance of Framf¿r Maríu
DARIO BULLITTA
Heilagir byskupar: Holy Bishops
5 Latin Oratory at the Edge of the World: The Fragments of Gizurr Hallsson's *Gesta Scalotensis ecclesie presulum and the *Vita sancti Thorlaci
GOTTSKÁLK JENSSON
6 Three Scenes from Jóns saga helga: A Typological Mode of Thought in Early Icelandic Hagiography
HAKI ANTONSSON
7 Lárentíus saga byskups: Between History and Historiography
FULVIO FERRARI
8 Remembering Saints and Bishops in Medieval Iceland
ÁSDÍS EGILSDÓTTIR
Heilagir karlar ok englar: Holy Men and Angels
9 Þat vóro lavg munka: A Reading of Benedikts saga in Light of the Regula sancti Benedicti
MAURO CAMIZ
10 The Lore of St Dominic in Medieval Iceland and Norway
SIMONETTA BATTISTA
11 The Veneration of St Michael in Medieval Iceland
MARGARET CORMACK
Heilagar meyjar: Holy Maidens
12 Katrínarhólar: St Catherine's Hills, Milk, and Mount Sinai
HELGI ÞORLÁKSSON
13 St Agnes of Rome in Late Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Verse
NATALIE M. VAN DEUSEN

Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index

Product details

• Authors: Haki Antonsson, Dario Bullitta, Dario Mario Bullitta, Gottskalk Jensson, Stephen Pelle, Kirsten Wolf
• Assisted by: Dario Bullitta (Editor), Dario Mario Bullitta (Editor), Kirsten Wolf (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: Old Norse
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781843846116
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-611-6
• No. of pages: 402
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 735 g
• Series: Studies in Old Norse Literatur; Studies in Old Norse Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works